I’ve done quite a bit of this. My assembler of choice is Small Batch Assembly.
It all sort of depends on what you call “reasonable.” PNP assembly is a bit like PCB fab in that there are rather large set-up costs and the per-unit cost after that is quite low, which favors volume. Any way you slice it, I’d expect that 10 boards is too small a number for it to be economical. I’ve done 10-20 *panels* of boards at a time with SBA, and that’s worked out ok, but that’s amortizing the cost over a couple hundred units at a time. SBA has a free quote widget on their site that will give you a ballpark number given your BOM size, board and panel count. I particularly like that there’s no hook from that widget to a greasy salesman trying to glad-hand you. :) > On Jun 23, 2016, at 12:28 PM, Bob Stewart <b...@evoria.net> wrote: > > One more related question before this topic dies, if you don't mind. What > about the other side of building: stuffing the boards. My GPSDOs have about > 120 parts per board, plus some custom work on the SMA connectors. Is there a > service out there that will populate boards with SMT components for small > orders at a reasonable price? Small is 10 boards. > > Bob - AE6RV > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > GFS GPSDO list: > groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GFS-GPSDOs/info > > -------------------------------------------- > On Wed, 6/22/16, Clint Jay <cjaysh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] RS232 / GPS interface/prototyping board > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > <time-nuts@febo.com>, "Nick Sayer" <nsa...@kfu.com> > Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 6:06 PM > > Life is so much easier > now, dirtypcb is a great service, I have a pile of > boards here from them which are far greater > quality than anything I could > hope to > produce at home or even in the lab I used to have. > They're also > better quality than any of > the local board houses I used in the past. > > Having said that, I did hand > manufacture fifty single sided boards from > photo laminate to completed product in one > weekend using a Dremel drill > press for > somewhere around four thousand holes and hand soldering > every > component so it was definitely > possible > On 23 Jun 2016 00:01, "Nick > Sayer via time-nuts" <time-nuts@febo.com> > wrote: > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
